Tinychart – simple, ready-to-go charts

Nice idea. A few possible improvements:

1. Import data from csv, excel etc, from file or textarea.

2. The chart should be resizable.

3. Color schemes would be nice to have.

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I think they went too tiny. There is almost no info about possible chart types or what you can do. The download feature is nice but that's all I can see right now. Havn't looked at the source code. I think Plottable looked like a better solution. http://plottablejs.org/

Two bits of feedback about 1st time experience of a non-developer:

1. It took me a moment to find where the save option is located. I guess that some less motivated people won't dig that deep. You could make it more visible as it's the most important part.

2. While entering the data I automaticaly actred like in Excel - I typed the number and pressed the enter, assuming that it will move me to the row below. You could use the power of user's habit :)